mistletoe 2020;

[softlyfalling]

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[hissterics]

Uh, your what is sitting it out?

[softlyfalling]

...

[ oh right she needs to translate to catra. ]

...it's what you call a wife who's a man?

[hissterics]

Uh, why not just call him a 'wife', then?

[softlyfalling]

Mm... quirks of language, I suppose.

...Kohime also calls him my wife, so close enough, I guess.

[hissterics]

Sure, whatever, your wife-husband.

So no one's playing for Avante?

[softlyfalling]

Oh, no, I'm sure someone's playing—I mean, Cardinal loves this kind of game, and I suppose Amaranth's with us now, and she gets pretty competitive... Nemesis usually plays this kind of game, too, I think?

[hissterics]

"Amaranth"?

[softlyfalling]

Ah, she's maybe... yea tall, [ she gestures at approximately six inches shorter than her own height, ] long black hair—she was one of the original members of LiliS.

[hissterics]

Then what's she doing on Avante?

[softlyfalling]

Er, well... there was some kind of mishap with her returning from a temporary transfer, and—

...apparently it turned into a permanent transfer to avante, somehow?

[hissterics]

What?

Doesn't that, like, freak you out?

[softlyfalling]

Oh it definitely does but I'm trying to stay mostly calm for everyone else.

[hissterics]

So, what. You're saying the rest are losing it?

[softlyfalling]

Ah, more like... it seems good to try and provide stability in a slightly stressful time?

[hissterics]

Please, someone with my face can handle anything.

Especially someone with my face with experience. I dunno about the rest, maybe they're flimsy, who knows.

[softlyfalling]

I'm glad both of you have become such good friends.

[hissterics]

––What? No we're not! No one said we were friends!

[softlyfalling]

Ah, well, it's just definitely pretty obvious when Kohime doesn't like someone, so it does definitely seem like it's changed, doesn't it?

[hissterics]

We called a truce, don't read into it.

[softlyfalling]

All right, all right.

Ah, did you need anything, though...?

[hissterics]

Wow. Sorry if I'm bothering you.

[softlyfalling]

Oh, no, it just seemed like there was something you were getting toward...?

Maybe it's just that you seem like you're a little tense?

[hissterics]

. . .You barely know me.

[softlyfalling]

...sorry, I didn't mean to pry.

[hissterics]

Uh, no, I meant how you figure you can call me 'tense' or anything else.